So everybody had a good laugh this morning when Eagles coach Chip Kelly, responding to a question about what he will do in the 35 days between today's final day of mandatory minicamp and the start of training camp in late July.

"I don't look at this as any break from what we've just done," he said. "This is our life's choice and we enjoy it. This isn't like Fred Flintstone, like `yabba-dabba-do' and we're trying to get out of work. It's another day, and we'll finish up with some different things before we get some time off.

"But I don't think anybody in our situation as coaches [are saying] `I can't wait to get out of there.' Most of them are: `I can't wait to get back in there.' "

Kelly chief among them.

But that doesn't make him Mr. Slate, just a typical football coach who's never really on vacation, no matter how far he may stray from the workplace.

Kelly was asked if he ever "turns the switch off."

"I don't think it's a switch," he replied. "You guys are all sports fans because you got into this. You don't just pick three weeks where you don't pay attention to any sport. So you go from one sport to the next sport to the next sport.

"So I've never really looked at it as a switch. I've just been a huge sports fan, I love the game of football, I have a passion for it. So it's not like if a conversation comes up three days from now about football, `I'm on vacation, I don't want to talk about it.' I'll probably be the one starting the conversation, you know?"